From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Jun 29 14:28:36 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1361498F4E9 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:28:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.ilk.org [23.30.133.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0E018B5 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:28:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from lowell-desk.lan (router.lan [172.30.250.2]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6828B33C1D; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:28:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 367EF3983C; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:28:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Norman Khine Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: edit sshd_config from freebsd8_rescue References: Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:28:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Norman Khine's message of "Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:38:25 +0100") Message-ID: <44mvzivbaw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:28:36 -0000 Norman Khine writes: > Hello, > I have a server running FreebSD8 from OVH, this had a problem, and I had to > restart it in rescue mode. > > This is what I did so far: > > rescue-bsd# df -aTh > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail > Capacity Mounted on > XX.XX.XX.XX:/home/pub/bsd-rescue8_64 nfs 1.9T 223G 1.6T 12% / > devfs devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev > /dev/md0 ufs 29M 2M 24M 7% /etc > /dev/md1 ufs 4.4M 20k 4.0M 0% /root > /dev/md2 ufs 4.4M 302k 3.8M 7% /var > procfs procfs 4.0k 4.0k 0B 100% /proc > devfs devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /var/named/dev > /dev/md3 ufs 19M 14k 17M 0% /tmp > > > rescue-bsd# gpart show > => 63 156301425 ad6 MBR (74G) > 63 156296322 1 freebsd [active] (74G) > 156296385 5103 - free - (2.5M) > > => 0 156296322 ad6s1 BSD (74G) > 0 20480000 1 freebsd-ufs (9.8G) > 20480000 1048576 2 freebsd-swap (512M) > 21528576 53895168 4 freebsd-ufs (25G) > 75423744 8388608 5 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) > 83812352 30720000 6 freebsd-ufs (14G) > 114532352 41763970 7 freebsd-ufs (19G) > > => 63 156301425 ad4 MBR (74G) > 63 156296322 1 freebsd [active] (74G) > 156296385 5103 - free - (2.5M) > > => 0 156296322 ad4s1 BSD (74G) > 0 20480000 1 freebsd-ufs (9.8G) > 20480000 1048576 2 freebsd-swap (512M) > 21528576 53895168 4 freebsd-ufs (25G) > 75423744 8388608 5 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) > 83812352 30720000 6 freebsd-ufs (14G) > 114532352 41763970 7 freebsd-ufs (19G) > > rescue-bsd# mount /dev/ad4s1 /mnt > rescue-bsd# vi /mnt/etc/ssh/sshd_config > rescue-bsd# umount /mnt/ > > rescue-bsd# mount /dev/ad6s1 /mnt > rescue-bsd# vi /mnt/etc/ssh/sshd_config > rescue-bsd# umount /mnt/ > > rescue-bsd# reboot > > I have opened the ssh port and saved the file > > Then I reboot the server in normal mode, but none of the settings seem to > have been saved on reboot! Are you *sure* you saved the file? I suggest checking *before* rebooting -- I strongly suspect that you haven't. Maybe you forgot to "write" from vi, maybe you forgot to set the disk read-write, maybe something else, but before the reboot. > Do i have to chroot in order for these to work? I tried to chroot, but > there is no vi in order to edit the file? Um, no, that's not necessary (or helpful). Good luck.